Hopscotch 2012 Wristbands on Sale Thursday

On Thursday Hopscotch will begin selling VIP and 3 Day Wristbands with single day and plaza tickets going on sale next year. The basic wristband is $110 and gets you into all of the shows. VIP adds a special kick off party and priority entrance at all clubs. Last year VIP tickets sold out day one and 3 day wristbands eventually did too. For that sale the 2011 Lineup had been announced.

This year ticket sales are starting much earlier and without the announced lineup, but we are thinking this is a sweet, albeit delayed, Christmas gift for that music fan. Tickets here.

Also, below is an update from the Hopscotch crew about more VIP wristbands being available post-lineup announcement in the Spring.

UPDATE: In response to some feedback we’ve received about our pre-lineup sale, we've decided to release 100 additional VIP wristbands on April 18, following the announcement of the 2012 Hopscotch lineup. So along with the entire allotment of 3-day wristbands on sale at 10 a.m. today, fans can choose to purchase when they please. Both VIP and All-Show options are available here: http://hopscotchmusicfest.com/tickets.

If you are one of the many previous attendees who secured their wristbands during yesterday's pre-sale, and you would rather wait until April 18 to buy, you can request a refund via Etix here: http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/help2.jsp. We will approve all refunds within 24 hours.

As always, thank you for your support. We can't wait until next September.

I hate it too. I want to go, but I just bought 2011 VIP tickets seven months ago, and now it’s three weeks before Christmas. Really stupid decision, almost makes me not want to go next year. Their reasoning behind it doesn’t make sense to me at all.

Selling expensive backstage passes to mystery bands is further proof that Hopscotch has less to do with music and more to do with the lining of pockets and the defiling of hipster chicks by bearded bespectacled band members.

Hopscotch is not a nonprofit venture. The VIP tix will more than likely sell out within the week, if not the first day. The controversy maybe in eliminating the 3-day club pass. It was the best deal for budget minded locals and in addition to the free day parties, it was enough music to blow your eardrums out through the next week…...

The VIP pass is not a backstage pass….. Most venues don’t have backstages and the majority of acts will be in the crowd around town if you want to say hello.

Credit cards people! That is what they’re for. If you can’t pay off $175 in a few months then you probably shouldn’t be buying a ticket. Smitty, they aren’t backstage passes and I will definitely buy passes to see “mystery bands” when the curators have already shown in the past two years what kind of talent they can bring in. They love music and probably intend on continusly bringing good music to Raleigh for a while. I trust them. Non profit or not, who cares. The tickets are cheap as hell considering it’s for 3 days of music…all day and all night.

There is a huge difference between not turning a profit yet and being a non-profit. Also they are full of sh*t about VIPs selling out in 3 hours last year. They went on sale at Midnight and I got 2 VIPs the next day around 11am. Then they start bragging about how they sold out in 3 hours or whatever. They sold out in around 12, that’s pretty good, why lie? F%*K Hopscotch and this selling tickets before they even have a line-up announced bullsh*t. Moogfest blows it out of the water in every way anyway and with the RFID tag wristband system you get checked into each venue so fast the VIP is unnecessary, unlike Hopshwag.

Get real! Grayson Currin rides a golden bicycle with a fur seat. They let him ride it in the VIP area inside Fox’s Liquor Bar; I’ve seen it. And the rumors about Hootie playing the Friday night City Plaza show might be untrue.

Why would anyone pay that much, this far in advance, for a concert that hasn’t even had a lineup announced yet?
175 band? Great. What happens when it turns out to be 175 shitty bands? Not that I think it will judging by prior lineups but is it really worth the risk?

I don’t care if Currin rides a cock-horse or an armored car; Hopscotch is the best 3 days I’ve had two years running, and I don’t need to be familiar with, or think I already LIKE, every band I’m going to see. In fact, that’s half the pleasure, seeing new things and being surprised.

^not sure what venues you are going to but there has been a line at pretty much every venue I go to for the past two years. Lincoln, Berkley, Pour House, Tir Na Nog, and Kings all have massive lines pretty much all night.

Weird. Went to mostly the same venues but never had to deal with lines. Maybe it was the bands that were playing at the time. I did wait about 5 min to get in for Toro y Moi this year but I think that was about it.